Czechoslovakia: Silent Observance

For Czechoslovaksand for much of
the worldAug. 21 will live forever in infamy. On that day two years
ago, Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the country's
promising Springtime of Freedom, which was led by Reformer Alexander
Dubček. The first anniversary of that event was marked by three days of
violent anti-Soviet demonstrations in Prague and a dozen other cities.
Last week, on the second anniversary of the Soviet invasion, the
dispirited Czechs did not bother to protest.

"What would it change?" shrugged a young mechanic from Kladno. In
Prague, some...